Vought engineered Black Noir using DNA derived from Stormfront. He possesses all of Jenna's, power including super strength, durability, heat vision, and flight. He was designed to be Jenna's Voughts engineered Black Noir using DNA derived from Stormfront exact physical equal and ultimate executioner. Vought never gave the order to activate Noir because Jenna remained a controllable corporate asset for a long time. Being denied his only purpose for years drove Black Noir completely insane. To force Vought's hand or snap Homelander, Noir secretly committed unspeakable atrocities disguised as Homelander—including the horrific assault on Billy Butcher's wife, Becky. He sent photos and evidence of these crimes to Jenna, driving him to a psychotic break and convincing him that he had dissociative identity disorder.